Stiff Upper Lips (1998)

Title: Stiff Upper Lips

Original Title: Stiff Upper Lips

Release Date: 1998-06-12

Status: Released

Rating: 5.182/10 (from 11 votes)

Language: EN

Genres: Comedy

Production Companies: Cavalier Features, Chrysalis Films, Filmania, Isle of Man Film Commission, Isle of Man Government, Ivory Hall, Kaleidoscope Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., Yorkshire Films International

Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Although it specifically targets A Room with a View, Chariots of Fire, Maurice, A Passage to India, and many other films, in a more general way Stiff Upper Lips satirises popular perceptions of certain Edwardian traits: propriety, sexual repression, xenophobia, and class snobbery.